New Delhi: The motorbike used in Malegaon blast on September 30 has been traced to a resident of Nashik named Eknath Pingle. According to sources Pingle has disowned the motorbike a Freedom LML- saying he had sold it in the year 2000.
A LML Freedom bike was used with a MH15P4572 fake number plate in the Malegaon blast.
Three persons - including a 10-year-old child - were killed and 70 injured as bombs ripped through communally sensitive town of Malegaon in Maharashtra. Sixteen policemen were among the 70 injured.
One person died in police firing in the violence that followed.
The explosions occurred around 9:30 pm on Monday night. Initial reports say crude bombs were used in both places and that the bombs were mounted on Hero Honda motorcycles parked near the blast sites.
Police are exploring whether timer devices were used to set off the explosives. Forensic teams are picking up evidence from the blast site in Malegaon as well as examining the motorcycle.
The blast in Malegaon happened outside a building where the SIMI used to have its office before 2001.
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